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The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself

Photo: Teddy Cavendish/Netflix
Photo: Teddy Cavendish/Netflix

The first Decimation: In a world full of witches that manifest superpowers on their 17th birthday, Annalise (Nadia Parkes) receives an unusual gift: the power of Decimation. What this means is that using her mind she can break things apart to their most basic elements—a gun becomes just bits of metal and screws, a hamster explodes, and in one memorable scene, a security guard comes apart, flayed open, his skin, muscles, tendons, guts, blood vessels, and bones simply lifting themselves off each other in a ghastly moment that solidified the horror at the core of this series.